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6:00 am, March 9th, 2026 - 3 comments
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The US economy is absolutely tanking under the Fascist fantasy economics of Trumpism
– https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/us-lost-a-surprising-92-000-jobs-last-month-and-unemployment-rate-ticked-higher-to-4-4/ar-AA1XG3Is
As the article points out, the Federal Reserve is now facing a stagflation nightmare as higher energy prices and tariffs spike up inflation and job numbers collapse.
When – not if – the AI bubble bursts the chaotic decline will become a chaotic collapse.
things take time to filter through an economy don't they. Stock markets can react immediately to any idiocy from Trump, economic growth, inflation and job market changes takes a lot longer to filter through. We are seeing the results of trumstupidity, and that is all pretty much in restrospect. In prospect, the further continuance of trumps senility is spiking energy costs, reducing trade, stalling economic growth, spiking inflation and spiking unemployment. As the US and global economy was hoping to find it's feet as the worst of trumps 2025 incoherence and chaos are moderating, president Dick trump sparks off another round of chaos elsewhere.
So, renewables might be a good idea.
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One week into President Trump’s war on Iran, the most severe shock to energy markets since the 1970s is cascading through the world economy.
The disruption quickly fed into higher gasoline and diesel prices at the pump, and higher mortgage rates and borrowing costs for the U.S. government, endangering Trump’s economic priorities.
https://archive.li/oR30I (wsj)